If it’s free, you’re the product.

Would I be asking if it’s normal if I had?

Three years?!?! Is that normal? I’d be ready to strike after 3 months!

Everyone would use it if that’s just the only way it worked. I don’t need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It’s always on. There’s no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don’t actually want people using it.

I’m not the person you’re responding to, but I’m running SmartTube on an Nvidia Shield here. Works amazing.

If you go this route, you’ll be suspect #1 if anyone else ever takes more aggressive defensive measures against the cameras.

If only there were some way to temporarily cover up the license plate.

I’d recommend caution. No idea if these things have a built in GPS, but I wouldn’t be surprised considering how easy/cheap it is for electronics hobbyists to add GPS functionality to their projects. Take it home and fire it up and you may potentially be telling the gestapo right where you live.

You have keywords to type into forums.

That’s great when you do, and you usually do, but sometimes you don’t.

Case in point; A while back I was creating a 3D model for my 3D printer. It had a part that was essentially identical to a particular unusual pipe fitting that I have seen and knew existed, but didn’t know the name of (spoiler: I’m not a plumber), and I wanted to give the sketch in the modeling software a proper name for the thing.

Just trying keywords that sort of described it’s shape in search engines was useless. Search engines would focus more on the “pipe fitting” part of the keywords and just return links to articles about plumbing. Then I asked an LLM, and it responded with, “That sounds like X.” Then I checked that it wasn’t just making it up by searching for “X” and found online stores selling the very thing I was trying to figure out the name of.

This tech we need, is the leap from ICE to electric vehicles

Great news! I heard a rumor that they’re going to start making electric vehicles next week.

“Yeah? And your point is?”. ~ Billionaires

You don’t honestly think that DHS doesn’t know Lemmy exists, do you? If they’re monitoring Reddit, you’d have to be a fool to not realize that they’re probably here, too.

Last year, a finance officer at a Singaporean multinational paid out nearly $500,000 to scammers during what he believed was a video call with company leadership.

My bet is that that is just his very plausible cover story. He’s the one that got the money.

The rest of us, he indicates, will be stuck on the assembly line, building whatever the tech companies require.

Meanwhile…

China is accelerating the rollout of fully automated “dark factories,” where production continues non-stop without lighting, human workers or shift changes. https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/tech-news/no-lights-no-workers-ai-powered-dark-factories-are-reshaping-china-s-manufacturing-4921224.html

Who’s got the hot new ideas so they can beat them to market.

Well, there’s an absolutely plausible motive that I hadn’t considered, yet. Fuuuuuuck.

closed source due to the small team

There are open source projects created and managed by a single developer. A “small team” is not a reason to be closed source.

Its website says the platform will remain “impartial” to political agendas, won’t shadowban users or content, and will “uphold social responsibility.”

I don’t feel, in this day and age, like you can be politically impartial (i.e. allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda) while simultaneously upholding social responsibility (i.e. not allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda).

I can’t argue with that.

• fiduciary

but instead give us a heap of AI-generated code and say “just put this in.”

we now have to reverse-engineer the requirements from their crappy AI code.

It may be time for some malicious compliance.

Don’t reverse engineer anything. Do as your told and “just put this in” and deploy it. Everything will break and management will explode, but now you’ve demonstrated that they can’t just replace you with AI.

Now explain what you’ve been doing (reverse engineering to figure out their requirements), but that you’re not going to do that anymore. They need to either give you proper requirements so that you can write properly working code, or they give you AI slop and you’re just going to “put it in” without a second thought.

You’ll need your whole team on board for this to work, but what are they going to do, fire the whole team and replace them with AI? You’ll have already demonstrated that that’s not an option.